Dorothy Day's Writings from Commonweal

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The Brother and the Rooster

September 18, 1929

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Guadalupe

February 26, 1930

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A Letter from Mexico City

April 16, 1930

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Spring Festival in Mexico

July 16, 1930

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Bed

May 27, 1931

Children's Books

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Now We Are Home Again

For two long summers I have been away from my little house on the shore of the island.

August 19, 1931

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Notes from Florida

June 22, 1932

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East Twelfth Street

November 30, 1932

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Real Revolutionists

Dorothy Day writes a dispatch from a December 1932 convention of farmers in Washington, D.C., lobbying for emergency legislation in the face of the Depression.

January 11, 1933

Domestic Affairs

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For the Truly Poor

March 15, 1933

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St. John of the Cross

July 14, 1933

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Houses of Hospitality

Unemployment is a grave emergency today. Workers of the world are being lost to the Church. As lay apostles and "other Christs," this is our responsibility.

April 15, 1938

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The House on Mott Street

We are literally sharing the poverty of those we help. Once the work of starting houses of hospitality is begun, support comes.

May 6, 1938

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Tale of Two Capitals

"We'll do what we can... take these unoccupied buildings to start some hospices. A place to live and something to eat now, then we can plan on getting back the land"

July 14, 1939

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King, Ramsay, and Connor

Day and a group of labor lawyers go to San Francisco's San Quentin prison to defend three innocent men convicted of the murder of an engineer on a cargo ship in 1936

April 19, 1940

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It Was a Good Dinner

Meals are so important. The disciples knew Christ in the breaking of bread. We know Christ in each other in the breaking of bread... gluten in wheat is like flesh.

August 23, 1940

U.S. Catholicism

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About Mary

“You,” I told the Blessed Mother, “will have to be her mother.”

November 5, 1943

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Tobacco Road

The story begins with my speaking at downtown Fordham to the Sodality of Our Lady, one noon hour some years ago.

November 26, 1943

Domestic Affairs

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Higher Education

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Peter and Women

December 6, 1946

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Women in the Church

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The Scandal of the Works of Mercy

To reach a man in the street you must go to the street, where Christianity itself may be a sign of contradiction

November 4, 1949

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Traveling by Bus

Let us say that travel by bus is traveling in poverty but not in destitution.

March 10, 1950

U.S. Catholicism

From the Archives

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The Story of Steve Hergenhan

It was he conflict between he worker and scholar that Peter was always talking about. Steve considered himself both a worker and a scholar.

January 11, 1952

Death and Dying

End-of-life Issues

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Priest of the Immediate

December 28, 1956

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We were, frankly, hoping for jail. Perhaps jail, we thought, would put another compulsion on us, of being more truly poor.

We Plead Guilty

December 27, 1957

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From the Archives

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Pilgrimage to Mexico

December 26, 1958

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In Memory of Ed Willock

February 24, 1961

Death and Dying

End-of-life Issues

From the Archives

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Southern Pilgrimage

March 31, 1961

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Domestic Affairs

From the Archives

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'A.J.'

March 24, 1967

Death and Dying

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From the Archives

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Dorothy Day on Hope

November 14, 1969

U.S. Catholicism

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A Reminiscence at 75

August 10, 1973

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